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In each period of
24 hours the driver shall have a daily rest of at least 11 hours, which
may be reduced to 9 hours no more that three times in a week( for
definition of week see drivers hours), on
condition that the equivalent period of rest be granted as compensation
before the end of the following week. So when does the 24 hour
period start and finish. Following a decision of the European Court
it starts after a daily or weekly rest.
If
we look at Monday example A we will see that the driver started at 06.00
hrs and finished at 22.00 hours. He then re-starts at 09.00hours on
Tuesday example B.
He
has therefore had 11 hours daily rest - wrong.
His
24 hour period started at 06.00 hrs on Monday and before 06.00 hours on
Tuesday he must have taken his 11 hours rest
(
not taking into account rest reductions). This means he has only had
8 hours daily rest from 22.00 hours on Monday to 06.00 hours on
Tuesday. So you can see it is possible to have 11 hours off between
two days and still fail to take a daily rest.
If
the Monday had been a Friday, even if the driver was going on holiday for
two weeks, he would still have failed to take a daily rest within his 24
hour period which started at 06.00 hours on Friday.
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